
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; Blissfully Yours, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; and Syndromes and a Century, which premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and was the first Thai film to be entered in competition there. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Weerasethakul has directed several features and dozens of short films. Themes reflected in his films (frequently discussed in interviews) include dreams, nature, sexuality (including his own homosexuality), and Western perceptions of Thailand and Asia, and his films display a preference for unconventional narrative structures (like placing titles/credits at the middle of a film) and for working with non-actors.
113 directing credits · 15 acting credits
Directing · 113

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013

Memoria
2021

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010

3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011

The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021

Tropical Malady
2004

Cemetery of Splendor
2015

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019

Syndromes and a Century
2006

Blissfully Yours
2002

Mysterious Object at Noon
2000

The Anthem
2006

Ten Years Thailand
2018

async - first light
2017

Stories on Human Rights
2008

Mekong Hotel
2012
Windows
1999
TON
2004

Ashes
2012

20 Little Films
2012

Worldly Desires
2005

January Stories
2024
The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005
2005

Art Through Our Eyes
2016
My Mother’s Garden
2007

The State of the World
2007

Fiction
2018

Vapour
2015

Ghost of Asia
2005
Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream
—

Quattro Hong Kong 2
2011
Sleep Song
2022

A Flower of Forgetfulness
2026

Cinetracts '20
2020

Sakda (Rousseau)
2012

Ablaze
2016

Primitive
2009

Luminous People
2007

Short Plays
2014
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
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Three Rocks
2022

Solarium
2023

Emerald
2007

For Bruce
2022

Monsoon
2011

Fireworks (Archives)
2014

Phantoms
2025
Haunted Houses
2001

The Adventure of Iron Pussy
2004
Malee and the Boy
1999
Sarit
2021

One Water
2013

Durmiente
2022
Meteorites
2007

On Blue
2022
Father
2001

Father
2014

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
2009

Blue
2018

Invisibility
2016
M Hotel
2011

Footprints
2014

Fever Room
2015

Vampire
2008

Untitled
2019

Nokia Short
2003
Fan Dog
2016

Mobile Men
2008

Rolling
2015

The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei)
2008

Le bureau qui avait peur
2024

Thirdworld
1999
For Monkeys Only
2014
Second Love in Hong Kong
2002
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1994
This and a Million More Lights
2003
Jenjira, Brother Triam
2018
Walking
2022

Blue Propeller
2013

Fireworks Sketch
2014
Action et Réaction
2022

A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)
2022

Teem
2007

2020
2020

I'm Still Breathing
2009
Prosperity for 2008
2008
Sakda, Somchai
2018
Making of the Spaceship
2009

Waterfall
2021
Nabua
2009
Nabua Song
2009
A Dedicated Machine
2009

Dilbar
2013
Decameron
2020

An Evening Shoot
2009
October Rumbles
2020

Bullet
1993

Memoria, Boy at Sea
2017

Night Colonies
2021

Haiku
2009

2017
2017

Empire
2010

Phantoms of Nabua
2009

Cactus River
2012
Home
2018
Seeing Circles
2020
For Shellie
—

2019
2019
Home
—
Jenjira, Death
—
Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves
1994
Boys at Noon
2000

Flowers & Banana Wind
2020
Acting · 15

Kulturzeit
1995

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014

Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
2012

Past Present
2013

Cinema Futures
2016

The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015

Mekong Hotel
2012

Behind the Blur
2009

Wiara
2018

A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2018

Le bureau qui avait peur
2024

Thirdworld
1999

Circulation
1998

Uncertain Path
2021
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA
2014